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Finally talked to my dad today. As usual we talked about how getting older sucks. You know you have things to write still, he said. I know I’m just kind of scatterbrained right now, I told him. It’s ok, he said pretty soon your year is over. I know I told him. I know I need to write, poetry is […]

So, I ended up in the hospital again. This time different circumstances. I had low blood pressure, could not get warm, my sons took me to the ER which ended up with a stay in the hospital because I had sepsis in my blood. What turned out to be a night in ER, I thought ended up being a weeklong […]

Senator McCain passed and many people took to social media, especially people of color, with curse words regarding him, what he stood for and who he was in this world. I am not sure if they saw him on C-SPAN ever and the many times he did stand alone. Like the nursery rhyme “And the cheese stands alone.” He has […]

I find myself thinking of my mom for the tiniest of reasons, I shed a tear, then I bead and pray with my beads. Tonight, I was thinking, gee I’m hungry for a tuna salad with macaroni, thinly sliced celery, diced white onion, miracle whip and tuna doused in black pepper. I learned that dish from a lady up here, […]

It was my decision to break away from social media on a platform like Facebook that turns out to be a time suck of productivity in a person’s day. At times it can be useful and serves its “purpose” in keeping us closer and more connected in ways we have never been as a human race. We surrender everything in […]

three significant members of the Lone Hill Tiyospaye, including my mother.
She left his world with such

There was something about the clouds and her that mixed. That’s a song that reminds me of her, she wasn’t a fan of storms but she can shape shift anything into something. She had magic in her. Her hands, small hands, long fingers, beautiful hands she gifted every one of us. These hands would write lovely words in cursive and […]

One of my absolute favorite things to do when I bead is watch/listen to PBS. My favorite show is “Finding Your Roots” where they take a famous person who basically knows nothing of their past and research and investigate where they come from. Because the country of America is so new compared to the rest of the world, most immigrants […]